Haiku Alpha 3 has been in development for more than 14 months. In that time more than 800 bugs have been identified and fixed, major sections have been updated, applications have been added and updated, and great progress has been made in supporting additional hardware. Here is a summary of updates, more details can be found here. Also inside, interviews with some core Haiku developers.

The source code for EKA2 was placed under the EPL by the Symbian foundation and a reader might have a code drop. However when Nokia officially took over it pulled it from the web and repeated requests to make it available have not met with any response.